On the tapas slate, I cannot stress enough how satiating and wonderful the potato tortilla is. The small plates start with a vast array of cheese and charcuterie you can mix and match. The food menu too feels almost too big to navigate, but it’s no boondoggle – more a boon, to be sure. The wine menu is vast, but there’s no need to feel overwhelmed tell the folks behind the bar your preferences and they’ll give you a taste or two, most always nailing it.Ī tender Grilled Pulpo comes atop a rich bed of dark orzo. A cool addition – and I do mean cool, as in perfect for these dog days of summer – is a gin and tonics section on the drinks menu, with a slight variation on the summertime classic that has perfectly carbonated tonic (never flat, never super fizzy) with subtle accents such as ginger garnishes that work perfectly with the lime to make the drink even more refreshing and light. Ham hocks hang above a slightly open kitchen window at the back of the restaurant.Īs you can likely gather by the name, Barcelona’s thing is wine and tapas. The Cambridge location is dark, warm and inviting, with an impressive marble bar top, that, despite my early skepticism, is a worthy replacement for the long, majestic metal one that came to define Temple Bar. The chain began in Connecticut back in the 1990s and has 20 locations, mostly on the East Coast (the three in the Boston area include this spot, the South End and Brookline) but with one outpost in Denver. Who knew a chain entry could be a quaint neighborhood spot? Sounds unlikely, but it’s so with the opening of a Barcelona Wine Bar last week where Temple Bar was for nearly 20 years – and let’s not forget about Nick’s Beef and Beer House before that, where gruff service was a selling point and cheesy, plastic fire logs hung lit on the walls. Barcelona Wine Bar is open where Temple Bar once served.
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